Developing Your Understanding of Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Organizations

Knowledge and Skills Development

On successful completion of this module students will be able to

1. Knowledge outcome – You will be able to develop your understandings of operations, logistics and SCM in organisations and how these contribute to organisational success

2. Intellectual /transferable skills outcome – You will be able to consider a complex scenario related to operations, logistics and SCM and apply quantitative or qualitative techniques to contribute to its solution.

You should write down an essay plan (500 words) to introduce

- selected business/ organisation

- two selected areas of Operations and Supply Chain Management

- theories and techniques that should be applied

- potential areas of improvement which need to be reviewed critically

How will we support you with your assessment?

· Two dedicated seminars in week three and ten

· Formative feedback on case studies in seminar

· Formative assessment: writing an essay plan in week 4

· Links to the assessment throughout your seminars and team-building sessionspecifically

· Coursework tutorials with your seminar tutor during reading week and revisionweek

· Coursework tutorial at week 11

· FAQs on Moodle

How will your work be assessed?

Your work will be assessed by a subject expert who will use the marking grid provided in this assessment brief.

When you access your marked work it is important that you reflect on the feedback so that you can use it to

improve future assignments.

You MUST use the Harvard System. The Harvard system is very easy to use once you become familiar with it.

The Business School requires a digital version of all assignment submissions. These must be submitted via Turnitin on the module’s Moodle site. They must be submitted as a Word file (not as a pdf) and must not include scanned in text or text boxes. They must be submitted by 2pm on the given date. For further generaldetails on coursework preparation refer to the online information via StudentZone Resit Resit submission date: TBC  For students who are offered a resit you are required to improve and resubmit your original work as well as adding a further reflective commentary discussing what you have learned from the process. You must resubmit your work using the specific resit Turnitin link on Moodle.

1. Review your previously submitted work and read carefully the feedback given by themarker.

2. Use this feedback to help you revisit and rewrite your work, improving it in the areas identified as weakin the original marking process

3. Include with your resubmission an additional reflective piece (up to 300/500 words#) on what you understand was weak, how you set about addressing this and what you have learned from this that may help you with further assignments. You should address the following specifically:

i) Identify tutor feedback points on your original work and identify where/how the resit work has changed (give page number) in response to feedback

ii) Identify the lessons you have learnt from doing the resit

iii) Reflect on how your feedback and this process will help you improve future assignments If you did not submit work at the first opportunity you cannot reflect on your feedback.

However, you are still required to submit a reflective piece in which you identify your reasons for non-submission, the implications of non-submission for your future success and how you propose to address this in the future. If you have issues with confidentiality of your reasons for non-submission then you could reflect on how you have met the learning outcomes for the module, how you can use what you have done on the module to support your future career and what skills/employability attributes you feel the module has helped you to develop. If you were deferred at the first assessment opportunity you do not need to include the reflective piece as this is a first submission at a later date, not a resit. The original marking criteria will still apply (see